Parents withdraw kids from school due to poor infrastructure

Cherubim and Seraphim School in Cape Coast is about collapsing as parents in the school are regularly withdrawing their wards from the school due to poor infrastructure.

The old school which runs Kindergarten to Junior High School (JHS) and is situated in the heart of Cape Coast close to Kotokuraba is gradually fading out as the school is no more attractive to people in the metropolis.

In an interview with the headmistress of the school recently during the inauguration of a three-unit classroom block for the school, Mrs. Charlotte Assan, stated that the school has six classrooms instead of eleven to cater for Kindergarten to JHS compelling two classes to be merged to be able to accommodate all the pupils.

“Two classes are in a room and it is disturbing a lot. When a teacher is teaching at one end, the teaching is heard at the other end and this has affected teaching and learning drastically in the school,” she revealed.

According to her, due to this, parents have started withdrawing their wards from the school to other schools bringing down the population of the entire school to 108.

“Averagely every class should have 40 pupils in a class totaling over 300 pupils in the school but due to our situation, instead of having that sizeable population we only have 108 for the whole school,” she disclosed.

She also mentioned the lack of electricity to enhance Information Communication Technology (ICT) delivery in the school as another major challenge facing the school.

Mrs. Assan stated that due to this, the school appealed to the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) who came to their aid with the provision of a new classroom block.

She was grateful to the assembly for the gesture, saying it will make teaching and learning effective as each class will now have its own classroom.

“Now our next target is to tackle enrolment because it is very low in the school. We will now go from community to community and radio station to radio station to convince parents to bring back their wards,” she stated.

Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Cape Coast, Mrs. Priscilla Arhin Korankye, who commissioned the classroom block, charged the school to put it to good use to ensure its longevity.